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EU LAW COULD FORCE MEMBER STATES TO RECOGNIZE HOMOSEXUAL “MARRIAGE”
A European Union law, scheduled to take effect yesterday, could force member
states to recognize so-called gay marriages.
The measure orders members (including those which have rejected calls for
such unions) to “facilitate” homosexual partners who have “married” in their
home countries and wish to travel to or live in another EU nation.
Only the Netherlands, Spain and Brussels currently have homosexual marriage,
though Britain, Germany and a number of other states have a form of civil
recognition for such arrangements. The measure is believed to be aimed at
Poland, Italy and Malta, which adamantly reject homosexual marriage.
World Congress of Families founder Allan Carlson noted that under the new EU
law, a same-sex couple “married” in Amsterdam could relocate to Warsaw and force
the Polish government to recognize their union.
Said Carlson: “This is an attempt to force sexual utopianism on EU states
that adhere to traditional values. With every European state posting negative
birth rates, you’d think that EU bureaucrats would be encouraging fecundity,
instead of promoting such sterile unions.”
Rocco Buttiglione, a member of Italy’s recent Berlusconi government, charged
the EU is advancing a leftist “soft totalitarianism” that seeks “a state
religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion – but it is a religion that is
obligatory for all.”
The International Planning Committee for World Congress of Families IV will
meeting in Warsaw May 5-7. The Warsaw Congress itself will take place May 11-13,
2006. The preservation of marriage is sure to be among the foremost items on the
agenda.
For more information on the World Congress of Families, go to
www.worldcongress.org.
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